Health visitors working in children's centres are being driven back into GP surgeries by doctors' superior data-collection systems.
GPs have opposed attempts to move health visitors away from theirsurgeries, claiming it breaks up teamwork in primary care health. Butfollowing the problematic introduction of a computer system to trackimmunisation data, health visitors working in children's centres arebeing drawn back - temporarily - into practices to use GPs' data.
Stuart Kay, chair of London GPs' local medical committee, who describedSure Start as "the bane of life for joined-up management of children",commented: "This might bring health visitors more closely into thefold."
